On Oct 6, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On 05/Oct/11 20:22, SM wrote: >> The Abstract mentions that: >> >> "While not originally written as an Internet Draft, it has been >> contributed to the IETF standards repository in order to make it >> easier to incorporate this material into IETF work." >> >> The "no derivative" clause makes it impossible to incorporate the >> material in this draft in any IETF work. The restriction is not >> called out correctly in draft-jdfalk-maawg-cfblbcp-02. > > IANAL, but my understanding is that one will be able to cite MAAWG's > RFC in other works, thereby /using/ those statements without actually > incorporating protected material literally. Copyright should protect > the wording, not the technique. Taking up terminology and quoting > small snippets of text should be fair use: J.D. himself, wearing a > IETF hat, is drafting a Standard Track I-D (marf-as) that uses the > CFBL BCP that way. Yep. A reference to a work is not a derivative of that work. -- J.D. Falk the leading purveyor of industry counter-rhetoric solutions _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf